/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10420610
Cope

>>10420616
OP btfo

I'm fine with either system. Metric is (usually) internally consistent and regular. Imperial deals with scales that are easier to conceptualize. I tend to prefer Metric because that's what I grew up using.

My only major misgiving with Imperial is how poorly it handles mass. Sure there's pounds, but that's a unit of weight not mass. Slug is the Imperial unit for mass, but most equations dealing with Imperial don't use it, they use pounds and just put in a gravity term to make the units work out. It feels cumbersome to deal with, and it easily complicates things. Especially if both mass and force appear in a set of equations, because you have to deal with both pounds as a mass and pounds as a force. And then theres that whole lbf vs lbm issue. I wish Imperial just settled with a unit of mass and stuck with it.

Customary units for charge, voltage, current, electric fields WHEN?

>>10420621
>kilofoot

>>10420632
Just use poundal

>>10420643
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kilofoot

>>10420673
Lol no one uses that and if you are going to just copy the metric system why not just go full metric huh?

>>10420677
>nobody has ever use base 10 before the metric system nor after

imagine being this retarded

>>10420610
reals > feels

>>10420685
imagine defending kilofoot

>>10420685
Imagine if China and Germany both came up with their own measurement systems that still used base 10 but had different sizes and names because fuck you. So you would have to learn 4 different measurement systems due to international trade. That is why metric was invented, to have a global universal system. Everyone but the United States and shitholes like Liberia got the memo. What is Anerica’s excuse?

>>10420610
>muh metric
REDDIT.COM

>>10420688
absolutely based

>>10420690
I don't understand why you're so triggered

>>10420690
imagine having a problem with kilofoot and not kilometer
Are you a communist by chance?

>>10420670
Idk. Slugs seems better to me, mainly because it parallels the Metric kilogram.

>>10420610
Not using ISO standard date format in 2019-02-26 both these systems are retarded.

>>10420610
why don't people like you push metric time harder? I'm tired of having to remember the number of seconds in a minute.

I can bear with burguer units but goddamn I hate the date system so fucking much.

>>10420991
The french fried once. Metric time and metric calendar. Didn't work so well

>>10421119
What if we advocated for metric time, but didn't chop anyone's head off?

Imperial is objectively better for practical use.
How long is an inch? Take the distance between your eyes.
How long is a foot? Well, your foot.

>B.BUT UMM ACTUALLY MY FOOT IS SMALLER THAN THAT
Then you simply don't get to measure, bitch. This is for NORMAL PEOPLE, not freaks of nature.

What are some everyday objects (that are not rulers) that you can use to get metric measurements? If you're naked in the woods and have literally nothing, how do you measure using metric?

Heh, thought so.

>>10421125
Fedoras are incapable of not mass killing. It's what they do.

>>10420610
>>10420688
this is the only good answer

seriously tho, I live in a country that uses metric so that's what I feel comfortable but the best reason I've heard in favor of the imperial foot and mile (and I totally agree) is that is a "human" measure it has a "human root" , and its a historical part of the western civilization from the ancient greeks (even before) to the present. I really like this historical reason.

its kinda interesting to think that the numer 1 nation on this planet came to be using this "cumbersome" system...

@ 1:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKXDWy_zXzI

>>10421135
My handspan is rougly 2 meters, both my handspan and my foot have rougly 30cms, a step ~75, etc

>>10421137
That video seems like some sort of numerology bullshit to me.

>>10421135
Suppose you live at the equator and end up lost exactly at the north pole.
How do you know how many feet you have to walk back home??
On the other hand, you can immediately know that the distance is 10 megametres.

>>10421135
>Take the distance between your eyes.
How the fuck are you supposed to do that

Measure your hands, people. For instance, I know that the tip of my index finger to the first joint is about one inch, the length from my outstretched index finger to the first joint of my thumb is about six inches, the length of my hand is about eight inches, and the distance from my wrist to the outside of my elbow is a foot.

>>10421169
Let's see, a nautical mile is one minute of longitude, there are 5400 minutes in 90 degrees, and there are about 6080 feet in a nautical mile. Grab the old slide rule and we get... something in the ballpark of 32.4 million feet

>>10420621
hahahaha

>>10420690
Nobody needs a kilofoot, that's why we don't use metric. Feet and meters don't matter at that scale.

We do need to divide by 3 though. Try doing that in the metricuck system.

>>10421137
>is a "human" measure it has a "human root"
absolute bullshit. the reason the metric system hasn't been implemented in the states is because we have an innate resistance to following any other country's example. that combined with an unhealthy dose of anglophilia among our political class. If the kilometer were invented in America, we would have switched long ago.

>>10420610
please be quiet euroboi

>>10420621
first time in a while i actually laughed at /sci/

>>10420621
>year/month/day
dont kid yourself, americans do not do this.
if you put month first then you should always include the year infront of that again.

>>10421693
We just drop the year because it's obvious from context

>>10421703
no, I mean nobody puts the year infront in the US
that is a japan/ISO thing
americans go full retard and put it at the end

>>10421706
They do when they write it in the file name and they want to sort by date.

My children, one day you will all take the base-12pill and realize that SI is just as arbitrary as Imperial.
Only when we switch to a base-12 numeral system and natural units (with prefixes based on 12) will any unit system be able to claim superiority.

>>10420610
>Imperial
Only retards use it

>>10421439
Remember that the US is fucking huge compared to a country in Europe. Imagine every road sign, speedometer, weight ballance, tape measure, radar installation, etc. being replaced in a country that spans almost two percent of the total land area of Earth. That will get expensive really quick. Not to mention the loss in economic output during the change due to not only delays from the changing process but also from errors due to confusion.

The US, for better or for worse, will stay with the Imperial system.

>>10421774
Remember that Canada is fucking huge compared to a country in Europe. Imagine every road sign, speedometer, weight balance, tape measure, radar installation, etc. being replaced in a country that spans almost two percent of the total land area of Earth. That will get expensive really quick. Not to mention the loss in economic output during the change due to not only delays from the changing process but also from errors due to confusion.

>>10421774
Kek excuses

>>10420688
The Sumerian numerical system worked on 6, American are closer to the 6.

>>10420610
I'll admit this image triggers me pretty hard